Flattening Baldock floors before LVT and tiles
Thin floor coverings hide nothing. LVT and sheet vinyl telegraph every dip and trowel mark, and large format tiles rock and crack if the base is not flat. Under BS 8204, a 2m straightedge goes down on the screed and the gap under it decides the class: up to 3mm is SR1, up to 5mm SR2, up to 10mm SR3. Plenty of thin sheet finishes will only accept SR1 and nothing looser.
A typical compound coat is somewhere around 2mm to 10mm deep, and a few products are made for deeper fills. Because it dries fast, the flooring can often be laid within days.
Terraces make up 28% of Baldock's homes, and a terrace that has been extended at the back is a classic case: new floor meets old, and the two rarely finish at quite the same level. Converted flats are 3% of the town's homes, and the older buildings along the High Street that have become flats or shops can have floors that bow and dip across a room.
Priming comes first. Each base needs a matching primer, whether it is old tiling, concrete, a cement screed or a calcium sulphate one; get it wrong and the compound may not stick. For a correction of just a few millimetres, latex screed is worth considering. Where a Baldock floor is too far out of level for compound, we tell you plainly and quote for a new hand-laid screed instead.
Shop and unit refits on London Road, Baldock
Refits on business premises run to their own deadlines. When a tenant leaves a unit at the London Road Industrial Estate, whether a light industrial space at the Bondor Business Centre or a workshop, studio or storage room in Horizon House, the next occupier usually wants new flooring down fast. Old adhesive, patched screed and removed fixings leave a surface that needs preparing and levelling before anything new is laid.
The same applies to shops on the High Street, where a refit often means lifting old carpet or tiles and finding a patchwork beneath.
Our approach is to assess the base first. Loose or hollow areas are cut out and repaired through our screed repairs service before any compound is poured, because levelling over a failing screed only hides the problem for a while. Compound is no substitute for rescreeding; poured thick to patch up a failing floor, it will often crack and let go of the base.
Fast drying products keep a shop or unit programme moving, often letting the flooring follow within days. For levelling in neighbouring towns, see our page on floor levelling in Stevenage.
How we price floor levelling in Baldock
A fixed written price within 24 hours, once we know the area and the base. See our floor screeding cost guide.
Who levels your floor in Baldock
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
See what customers say in our Google reviews and on our testimonials page.
Floor Levelling from Slough to Baldock
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 37.2 miles from Baldock, which lies to the north-north-east. Postcodes here include SG7, and Letchworth (2 miles), Stotfold (2.6 miles), Hitchin (4.8 miles) and Stevenage (6.1 miles) are close by.
More on floor levelling, part of our screeding services. Not sure whether you need a thin compound or a full flowing screed? See self levelling screed explained.